Stranger In Paradise (Jesse Stone)
by Robert B. Parker
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Author: Robert B. ParkerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-03
ISBN: 042522628X
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Berkley
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- ISBN13: 9780425226285
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Stranger In Paradise (Jesse Stone)
Book Review: I almost read them in my sleep now, like an audiobook
Summary: 4 Stars
At this point, having read (I think) every Spenser novel, every Jesse Stone novel, and every Sunny Randall novel, I'm so used to Robert B. Parker's style that it's almost as if they're audio books, and I could read them in my sleep. This book is a good example of why. The plot's not particularly electric or revolutionary, for Parker anyway, and the characters are pretty typical of his stories. The book itself, though, sort of flows past you page by page, without you actually seeming to read anything, really.
In this installment of the Jesse Stone series, the protagonist learns that his old nemesis Crow is back in town. Crow escaped at the end of a previous book with a pile of money, having refused to kill some hostages. Thirty years ago or more, Parker sort of split his protagonist in the Spenser novels in twain, by adding a darker (character-wise and pigmentation-wise too), less morally-encumbered version of his protagonist, known as Hawk. He's spent a lot of time on the theme of right and wrong, and what it means from various points of view. Jesse Stone (til now) hasn't had an alter ego like Hawk for Spenser (and to a lesser extent Spike for Sunny Randall), but Parker seems to be veering slightly in that direction, with the arrival of Crow.
Crow has returned to Paradise, looking for a mobster's wayward ex-wife and daughter. He actually announces himself to Stone, and while Stone tries to discover criminal charges he can press against Crow, it becomes apparent that the Statute of Limitations has run out and Crow is free to do what he wants, as long as he doesn't break the law. When his employer tells him to kill the ex-wife and return with the daughter, however, he balks, because he has this rule about killing women. Everyone else he is happy to kill, but he likes females. One amusing aside: he's presented as an Apache warrior; but of course Apaches never had any compunctions about killing women, children, everyone. Nevertheless, Crow has compunctions about this, though he's happy to kill almost anyone else if he can see an advantage to himself.
I liked this book, and would recommend it to anyone who's read Parker's stuff in the past. I'm a firm believer in reading series in the order in which they were written, so I wouldn't recommend it if you haven't read the previous Stone books; then again, I suppose you could get by without having read them.
Summary of Stranger In Paradise (Jesse Stone)
An Apache hit man arrives in Paradise to find a missing girl and snuff out her mother. But his conscience is getting the best of him. If he doesn?t make the hit, he?ll pay for it. So might Jesse Stone, who?s been enlisted to protect them all.
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